I Will Not Forget You!

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter that Sheila wrote for the book.

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast

    and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget,

    I will not forget you!

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See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;

    your walls are ever before me.  (Is. 49:`15-16)

A true story: Two-day-old Carly was lying contentedly in her hospital “cradle” with her sleeping mother nearby, exhausted from the birth ordeal. When her mother awakened, she cast a sleepy gaze toward her baby. Her eyes widened in horror. Panic rose. Her heart began to pound rapidly. Carly was gone! Her bed was empty.

I Will Sustain You

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter that I wrote for the book.

"Listen to me, O house of Jacob,

        all you who remain of the house of Israel,

    you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,

        and have carried since your birth.

  Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he,

        I am he who will sustain you.

    I have made you and I will carry you;

        I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

                                                                                  Isaiah 46:3-4

Those of you reading this book surely represent many age groups. Some of you are still in your youth and can hardly imagine ever growing old. Even if getting old seems like something very far off, think about this: In some way life is not always going to be as it is now. You are going to experience changes and some of them will be a bit unnerving. You may not like to think about it, but some of you who have been healthy will get sick.

If You Seek Me...You Will Find Me

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter written by Jeff Chacon.

God is merciful. He is truly the God of the second chance, and the third, and the fourth, and God delivered to me another of his very precious promises, a promise that is ever so precious when it is needed ever so badly:

If You Forgive Others

Again this week we feature an excerpt from The Promises of God ©1998 by Discipleship Publications International. This week’s post is from a chapter written by Roger Lamb.

The need to forgive others is incredibly real. Most of us grow up learning to be disillusioned with promises—especially promises to forgive. We both forgive and ask for forgiveness, thinking that we have buried the hatchet. But just a single fit of rage later, we quickly reach for the handle of the hatchet again. It may be the handle to one or one hundred past hurts that we sling at the person who has committed the new offense. We have all been on the receiving end of that hatchet, and it is not a pretty sight. And it does not feel good. That is the definition of dysfunctional relationships: the inability to solve conflict and forgive.